AMD and its add-in-board (AIB) partners have decided to kick of yet another price war campaign by lowering the price of the Radeon HD 7990 Malta dual-GPU graphics card from around US $1,200 down to US $699.99.

The price cut has been already implemented at the USA Newegg.com and we are seeing same thing all around Europe. While it was priced at anywhere between US $1,100 and US $1,200 at Newegg.com, the HD 7990 is currently listed at anywhere between US $699.99 and US $789.99. In Europe, the HD 7990 was previously selling at around €950+ depending on the region while most of the listings now put it around €700. The German-based Mindfactory.de even has the XFX Radeon HD 7990 listed as low €599.75.

The AMD Radeon HD 7990 features two 28nm fully enabled Tahiti GPUs for a total of 4096 stream processors and 6GB of GDDR5 memory (3GB per GPU). The GPUs are working at 950MHz base and 1000MHz Boost clocks and while 6GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with 2x384-bit memory interface ended up clocked at 6000MHz.

AMD has already released a new Catalyst beta driver that fixes some of the micro-stuttering issues and with the right Crossfire profiles that are released occasionally, it certainly puts a decent fight against, now much higher priced GTX Titan and the GTX 690 graphics cards. Of course, Never Settle bundle with a total of eight AAA titles with a value of around US $100, gives it an even better edge against the competition.

The current price puts the Radeon HD 7990 directly against a bit cheaper Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 graphics card and it looks like AMD decided to make its first move in the new price war campaign.

You can check out Newegg.com prices here and some European listings here.

Following the flock of AMD AIB partners, Gigabyte has also launched the new dual-GPU flagship Radeon HD 7990. To be sold under the GV-R799D5-6GD-B model name, the new Gigabyte Radeon HD 7990 is based on two 28nm Tahiti GPUs and features a total of 4096 stream processors (2048 per GPU).

As we wrote yesterday, all partners will have to stick to AMD's reference design for now and we are not sure if we will a custom solutions anytime soon. The HD 7990 graphics card feature 4096 stream processors and works at 950MHz base and 1000MHz Boost GPU clocks while 6GB of GDDR5 memory (3GB per GPU) ended up clocked at 6000MHz. Paired up with a 2x384-bit memory interface the total memory bandwidth ended up at 288GB/s per GPU.

Since it sticks to AMD reference design, the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7990 also features a dual-slot, triple-fan cooler that pretty much does a really good job in keeping those two GPUs well cooled and even does it a reasonably low noise levels. It needs two 8-pin PCI-Express connectors and comes with four Displayport and one DVI output with support for five displays.

As noted earlier, all Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards are expected to start showing up in retail/e-tail in about two weeks with a suggested price at US $999.

Like most, if not all AMD AIB partners, Asus has also launched a Radeon HD 7990 graphics card. Based on the reference design from AMD, all that partners can do is print their own boxes and slap a sticker on the cooler.

In case you missed it during the official launch yesterday, the Radeon HD 7990 features two 28nm Tahiti GPUs based on AMD's GCN architecture for a total of 4096 stream processors (2048 per GPU), 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs and 384-bit memory interface for each GPU connected to a total of 6GB of GDDR5 memory (3GB per GPU). The Radeon HD 7990 works at 950MHz base and 1000MHz Boost GPU clocks while memory ended up clocked at 6000MHz adding up to 288GB/s of memory bandwidth per GPU. Since it is based on a reference design from AMD, Asus' Radeon HD 7990 also uses a quite good dual-slot, triple-fan cooler.

As it was the case with all previous graphics cards from Asus, this one also ships with Asus GPU Tweak tuning and monitoring software and also ships with a total of eight free games including Crysis 3, Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Sleeping Dogs, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Hitman Absolution as a part of the AMD Never Settle Reloaded campaign.

According to the press release, Asus Radeon HD 7990 will be avialable worldwide from late May with a price tag of US $999.

Detailed earlier, the Radeon HD 7990 Malta packs two 28nm Tahiti GPUs based on AMD's GCN architecture for a total of 4096 stream processors (2048 per GPU), 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs and 384-bit memory interface for each GPU connected to a total of 6GB of GDDR5 memory. AMD did a great job in keeping the power requirements as the card actually "only" needs two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors and ended up with impressive 950MHz base and 1000MHz Boost GPU clocks while memory ended up clocked at 6000MHz adding up to 288GB/s of memory bandwidth per GPU.

Since we are talking about a dual-GPU graphics card, AMD opted for a PLX PEX8747 48-lane PCI-Express 3.0 bridge chip in order to connect those two GPUs in Crossfire. The reference design is quite good and does not leave much room for custom solutions. It is pretty much what we had a chance to see from Nvidia's flagship offerings as it does a great job in keeping both GPUs well cooled at impressively low noise levels. In order to give as much value to the new graphics card, same as it did with its entire HD 7800/7900 series, AMD decided to bundle no less than eight free games, including Crysis 3, Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Sleeping Dogs, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Hitman Absolution.

As far as the performance goes, the AMD Radeon HD 7990 is unquestionably the fastest graphics card that money can buy, especially if you plan to do some gaming on higher resolutions. It wastes more power than the GTX 690, the main competitor from the green camp, but since we are talking about US $999 graphics cards here, talking about power consumption is pretty pointless. As it was the case with all previous graphics cards, the performance is a mix bag as it is good in some games and not so good in others.

AMD does have an upper hand over GTX 690 as it offers more memory per GPU, 3GB over 2GB, which will eventually become important and currently is in case you want to talk about extremely higher 4k resolutions and extreme multi-monitor setups. It pretty much has the same problem as the GTX 690 as you need to have proper Crossfire driver in order to see those impressive performance in any game.

On the other hand it undeniably offers more value than the GTX 690 due to the Never Settle bundle, a quite big thorn in Nvidia's eye. The bottom line is that AMD Radeon HD 7990 Malta is currently the fastest graphics card that money can buy and since it is a dual-GPU solution as it offers more value and better future investment than the GTX 690, especially for those with deeper pockets that are looking to game at 2560x1440 single/dual setups or even 4096x2160 ones.

It is pretty much a battle for bragging, i.e. the graphics card throne, and according to various reviews around the net, AMD has won this round.

The elusive AMD Radeon HD 7990 Malta has been pixellized yet again, but unlike the last time when it was held in the hands of an AMD representative, this time it is actually plugged in next to yet another HD 7990 Malta graphics card for some CrossfireX action with four GPUs.

The blurry picture was posted over at Reddit by a user that might have to do something with EA and the upcoming Battlefield 4 title. In any case, it appears that the HD 7990 Malta graphics card is up and running and all we need now is to see it officially announced and to show up on retail/e-tail shelves.

In case you missed it, reference Radeon HD 7990 Malta was pictured and officially announced at GDC 2013 press event last month and came with triple-fan dual-slot cooler. Unlike the earlier released HD 7990 New Zealand graphics cards that needed triple-slot cooling and three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors, the upcoming HD 7990 Malta is less power hungry as it only needs two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. Unfortunately, AMD did not shed any light on the specifications at GDC 2013 nor did it talk about the precise launch dates.

Unfortunately, we have been asking around and according to current info, we probably will not see it before Computex 2013 in June. According to our sources, the Computex show also sounds like a best case scenario.

It certainly sounds like an interesting graphics card and hopefully, AMD can push it to market sooner rather than later.

During its GDC 2013 press event, AMD decided to show off its new Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, codename Malta, in its reference form.

According what we can see from various pictures all around the net, the new Radeon HD 7990 will be following in the footsteps of New Zealand based HD 7990 graphics cards that we had a chance to see from TUL and its Powercolor, VTX3D and Club3D partners as well as the Asus' Ares II graphics card.

The new HD 7990 graphics card feature dual-slot cooler design with no fewer than three 90mm fans. In this case, the triple-fan cooler does not sound as an overkill considering that it needs to cope up with two GPUs, bridge chip and a hefty VRM that is needed to power all of that.

PCWorld.com managed to snag a screenshot from the official preview slide and according to Matt Skynner, general manager of AMD graphics business unit, the card is whisper quiet thanks to the triple-fan cooler. One thing that caught our eye is the fact that it needs two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors which makes it less hungry than for example Powercolor HD 7990 Devil 13 graphics card.

A few weeks ago we wrote about AMD’s mystic dual-chip card codenamed Malta, and it turns out that the company is ready to reveal it to the world.

According to chaps who saw it at Games developers’ conference, Malta is going to be called AMD Radeon HD 7990. It has three fans, a dual slot cooler and a bunch of connectors including DVI, DP, HDMI and bunch of others.

Tech Radar had a chat with Devon Nekechuk, AMD product manager for high-end graphics, who showed off the card on stage and confirmed that this card is part of the same family as other 7990 cards on the market. Let me refresh your memory. We reviewed the PowerColor Devil 13 here and Asus Ares II is supposed to be the fastest AMD dual card on the block.

We can only raise our collective eyebrows at AMD’s decision to keep the same 7990 brand name for new cards, but AMD has already made it clear that these cards are preview only version and that the real product and the rest of the details come a bit later.

The folks over at TechPowerUp have recently released a GPU-Z screenshot showing the official hardware specifications of AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, codenamed "New Zealand."

According to the architectural specifications at hand, the card features completely-unlocked 28 nm "Tahiti XT" GPUs with 2048 stream processors each, an AMD-rebadged PLX PEX8747 PCI-Express 3.0 48-lane bridge chip and a shroud that carries the "GHz Edition" badge.In terms of performance specs, the card features a 1.0GHz core clock, 1250MHz memory speed and a total of 6GB GDDR5 memory (3GB usable / per-GPU). In terms of heat ventilation, it appears AMD has borrowed a design strategy similar to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU, where a 70mm fan is placed in the middle of the PCB between two heatsinks cooling off both GPUs on the left and right. Of course, many users of the previous-generation Radeon HD 6990 dual-GPU have complained of high noise and "buzzing" issues at decibel levels that barely tip over the scales in terms of acceptability. Nevertheless, AMD hopes its new heatsink design should alleviate consumer woes surrounding these noise complaints.

AMD's "New Zealand" dual-GPU beast will be powered by two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors and will feature one dual-link DVI connector and four mini-DisplayPort connectors. Hard launch is expected on Tuesday, April 17th.

We got some extra details about the upcoming Radeon HD 7990, the dual-GPU successor to the Radeon HD 6990 and the price tag is not something that many will like.

Since AMD went on record telling the world that fastest single core Radeon HD 7970 will sell for $549 as of January 9th, the dual-core card will obviously get a significant price boost. It won’t cost as much as two Radeon HD 7970 cards, but AMD plans to sell this card for $849 and according to the current launch schedule it should appear in March 2012.

The packs 2x3GB GDDR5 memory running at 5GHz effective, along with two Tahiti chips clocked at 850MHz, which amounts to 2x2048 stream processors 2x128 texture memory units and 2x32ROPs.

These prices can easily change by launch date, but as of today, this is the planned spec and price. The card specification looks impressive and ambitious and so is the rest of 2012, the year of 28 nanometer graphics.

The year 2011 will be remembered as the year of hope to see 28nm graphics from AMD and Nvidia, but serious quantities and launch of most 28nm desktop graphics won’t happen before early next year. So basically, in terms of graphics developments, 2011 will not be remembered at all.

AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 / 7950, codenamed Tahiti, are expected in January and they should be the fastest AMD single-chip solutions. Now we got confirmation that there will be a dual-chip card, something that might end up branded as Radeon HD 7990 and its codename is New Zealand, or Australia Light as some like to call it.

The launch schedule places the card around March, so it’s safer to say late Q1 2012 with an option to slightly slip in early Q2 2012. Naturally this card is faster than any other Radeon HD 7000 generation 28nm card but it will also beat the Radeon HD 6990, AMD’s fastest card to date.

Good news for 2012 is that dual-GPU graphics continue to exist and we are confident that Nvidia is working on its 28nm dual Kepler card.